After a few hours the Oscar winners will be declared, counting the award for the most excellent movie of 2009. We take a look at the contenders in the Best Picture group to see which movie would succeed if every download on Bit Torrent calculated as a vote.

Tonight, Hollywood’s major stars will walk the crimson carpet into the Kodak Theater for the ritual.

In eagerness of the exciting Oscar night, we enter the dim side of the movie business to find out which of the 10 contenders in the Best Picture group gets the vote from Bit Torrent consumers. New Tee Vee asks us to rank the nominees by amount of downloads and the consequences are finally in.

If every download on Bit Torrent counted as a vote, Region 9 would be crowned the winner, intimately followed by Avatar. The least well-liked films according to the Bit Torrent community are The Blind Side with 1,845,000 downloads and An Education with ‘only’ 683,000 downloads.

We have to communication that evaluate the downloads of every of the candidates is not really reasonable since some movies have been obtainable online for more than a year already, while others only leaked a few weeks ago. Avatar, which is 2nd in the list with 11,326,000 downloads, became obtainable in DVD-quality 4 weeks ago, while District 9 was previously extensively accessible last September.

As usual, all the selected movies are accessible online in different formats. For District 9 2,948 exclusive torrent files were calculated, but the preponderance of these are motionless or have very few download’s.

The information for this catalog is composed by Torrent Freak from numerous resources, counting reports from all the big Bit Torrent trackers. All free formats, including crammed reports, are calculated. Afterwards, the information was suspiciously checked and likely inaccuracy was analytically corrected.